Guo is continuing to move the technology forward, collaborating on a project that uses transparent conductors in solar c…

Researchers at Cambridge, Imperial and Singapore have developed a method to print ultrathin coatings on next-generation…

Microscopic structures could further improve perovskite solar cells

By combining two microscopy methods, the researchers were able to show that electrons move much faster parallel to the s…

In the quantum scale, atoms vibrate, and they vibrate faster when they are heated. It is these vibrations that interact…

The researchers took a perovskite solar cell, a crystal structure that's designed to harvest higher energy photons, and…

UQ researchers set a world record for the conversion of solar energy to electricity via the use of

Perovskite/ CIGS semiconductor pairing promises to boost photovoltaic efficiency

Tandem solar modules consist of two different types of modules in a layered array that puts the solar spectrum to much b…

Prototype Lightyear One debuts in sunrise presentation

The roof and hood are comprised of five square meters of integrated solar cells in safety glass so strong that a fully-g…

The research team, led by Dr Hieu Nguyen, used an innovative approach to show the maximum voltage achievable through lig…

In UCLA-led study, perovskite-based devices benefit from the strong bond between lead and the same chemical found in coffee and tea

To test whether caffeine would improve the device’s thermal stability, the team made a custom perovskite film by mixing…

Their findings have been published in the March 2019 issue of Nano Energy. The study finds key to produce perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells that display high efficiency (21.19%).

In the present study, the research team proposed a new method for optimizing the design of low-cost and high-efficiency…

Rutgers-led team finds a new way to control light emitted by a hybrid crystal

Their discovery involves crystals called hybrid perovskites, which consist of interlocking organic and inorganic materia…

New results show how varying the recipe could bring these materials closer to commercialization.

Conventional solar cells made of silicon must be processed at temperatures above 1,400 degrees Celsius, using expensive…

Their findings have been published in the November 2018 issue of Advanced Energy Materials.

A recent study, led by Professor Tae-Hyuk Kwon in the School of Natural Science at UNIST has taken a major step toward t…

Technology from the Atwater Lab makes metal contacts for solar cells effectively transparent

The technology, which is being marketed by a new startup company—ETC Solar, LLC—could potentially improve the output of…

While p-type PERC solar cells are becoming mainstream in the PV industry, n-type PERT technology is being developed as a…

Columbia Engineers make white paint whiter—and cooler—by removing white pigment and invent a polymer coating, with nano-to-microscale air voids, that acts as a spontaneous air cooler and can be fabricated, dyed, and applied like paint.

The researchers found their polymer coating’s high solar reflectance and high thermal emittance kept it significantly co…

NYU Tandon Professor André D. Taylor’s Research Team Combines Materials and Borrows Lessons from Nature to Build a Better Organic Solar Cell

The organic solar cells developed by his team are flexible and could one day be used in applications supporting electric…

There is great potential for organic solar cells to be integrated into buildings and vehicles, or even be incorporated i…

When photons from the sun are absorbed by the semiconducting polymer in a solar cell, electrons in the donor material ar…